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One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. - Love of Fame (satire VII, l. 55) [Murder : Proverbs] Some future strain, in which the muse shall tell How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. - Love of Fame (satire VII, l. 95) [Authorship] None think the great unhappy, but the great. - Love of Fame--Satire [Misfortune] Teach me my days to number, and apply My trembling heart to wisdom. - Night Thought (night IX, l. 1,312) [Wisdom] Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. - Night Thoughts [Virtue] The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze. - Night Thoughts (night 1, l, 178) [Bliss] Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes. - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 1) [Sleep] Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 153) [Ocean] Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end. - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 18) [Night] Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice; and thrice my peace was slain! - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 212) [Death] Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause. - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 23) [Sleep] Some for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro' realms their valour saved. - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 250) [Soldiers] In human hearts what bolder thoughts can rise, Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn! Where is to-morrow? - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 374) [Tomorrow] Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 390) [Time] At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, In all the magnanimity of thought; Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. And why? because he thinks himself immortal, All men think all men mortal but themselves. - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 417) [Folly : Mortality] The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss: to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 55) [Time] And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 66) [Eternity] How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He, who made him such! - Night Thoughts (night I, l. 68) [Man] And then, exulting in their taper, cry, "Behold the Sun;" and, Indian-like, adore. - Night Thoughts (night II) [Authorship] Time is eternity; Pregnant with all eternity can give; Pregnant will all that makes archangels smile. Who murders Time, he crushes in the birth A power ethereal, only not adorn'd. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 107) [Time] Ah! how unjust to nature, and himself, Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 112) [Man] Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels, How heavily we drag the load of life! Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It makes us wander, wander earth around To fly that tyrant, thought. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 125) [Leisure] We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 131) [Amusements] Time wasted is existence, used is life. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 149) [Time] We push time from us, and we wish him back; . . . . Life we think long and short; death seek and shun. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 174) [Time] Displaying page 12 of 18 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12] 13 14 15 16 17 18
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